Story highlights David Andelman: Trump has violated the cardinal rule of diplomacy — choose your friends wisely By aligning with Saudi Arabia against Iran, Trump has jeopardized the safety of the region, Andelman writes David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and director of its Red Lines Project, is a contributor to CNN and a columnist for USA Today. Author of ” A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today ,” he formerly served as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News in Asia and Europe. Follow him on Twitter @DavidAndelman . The views expressed in this commentary are his. (CNN) Donald J. Trump is not abiding by a central tenet of international diplomacy — choose your friends wisely, particularly in the Middle East. For decades, American leaders have steered carefully between the Scylla and Charybdis of ancestral enemies — Saudi Arabia and Iran — in hopes of maintaining some vestige of peace, or at least the absence of outright war, in the region. And yet now, as the two nations find themselves locked in a direct battle for total dominance in the Middle East,… Read full this story
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